Accountability by actor
Promises, claims, red flags, money, litigation and involvement in events — gathered per actor (including private operators and contractors) across every topic.
Yerevan Municipality
Government body«Draft, within 2 months, a four-year clean-air plan with concrete indicators — tree-planting and restrictions on the oldest, dirtiest cars (a ban on vehicles without a catalytic converter).»
«Build the long-promised 11th metro station ('Ajapnyak') to relieve the city.»
«Buy 250 18-meter electric buses — the 'final phase' of the public-transport fleet upgrade (replacing the HIGER buses and GAZelle-City minibuses).»
Official answer on the 250-electric-bus program: promised since 2023, in the 2024 plan — still no buses — Yerevan Community, July 9, 2026
Yerevan to buy 250 electric buses — the final phase of the public-transport fleet upgrade — ArmenPress, September 29, 2025
Yerevan prepares to purchase 250 electric buses — procurement slated for 2026 — ARKA, December 15, 2025
«Close the Nubarashen dump and build a sanitary landfill to replace it (an EBRD/EIB/E5P contract).»
Renovating the Nubarashen landfill will cost €24 million — Azatutyun (RFE/RL), March 11, 2016
From noxious fumes to empty pledges: Yerevan's long struggle with its toxic bomb dumpsite — OC Media, September 11, 2025
Plan to build a new landfill site in Nubarashen cancelled; a new plan is being discussed with the World Bank — EcoLur, July 26, 2024
«'Land occupation is theft from all of us, it is over': the chief architect vowed not to legalize illegal builds and personally assured residents that no high-rise would go up at 6/1 Alikhanyan Brothers St.»
«Turn the remaining ~200 ha of the Dalma gardens into a large public forest-park — a forest zone with sports and children's grounds and a water body.»
Avinyan on the Dalma gardens: the concept is a forest-park as close as possible to New York's Central Park — Panorama.am, August 28, 2023
Dalma Gardens development: construction of a 15-story district begins — Hetq, July 10, 2020
«A new master plan will be ready 'in two years': the mayor's advisor David Chgnavoryan called 1.5 years realistic but asked to 'keep two years in mind'.»
«The alarming international air-pollution rankings for Yerevan are not true; the foreign sensors carry 'up to a 40% margin of error'.»
«The trees being cut are diseased elms from the 1940s–50s, replaced with healthier decorative species.»
«The 2024 master plan is the first digitized, GIS-based one, adopted through an open process.»
The program was reclassified from 'tree replacement' to 'sanitary cutting' to circumvent legal requirements.
- Tree cuttingUnqualified appointee
City Hall's chief dendrologist, who decided the trees' fate unilaterally for 6 years, has no relevant education and previously worked as a bookmaker.
The Dalma Gardens plot was rezoned from green space to residential for development.
City Hall legalized ~4,258 unauthorized buildings (2019–2024), turning the violation into a budget revenue stream.
City Hall withheld the full draft master plan and failed statutory public disclosure (2023–2024).
- Tree cuttingrespondentAdministrative CourtIn hearings
A suit challenging the cutting program: a resident seeks to have City Hall's decisions to fell mature trees en masse declared unlawful.
9.1 billion AMD — City-budget revenue from legalizing ~4,258 unauthorized buildings (2019–2024) — the violation turned into a revenue line.
Avinyan orders a 4-year clean-air plan — within 2 months
AQI 239 smog — and the environment chief's dismissal
Transit fare raised to 150 dram — protests
Paid parking on shaky legal ground
The $200M transport overhaul stalls
The 11th metro station — years and millions away
Traffic Management Center established
A crossing moved 'to increase throughput'
City Hall launches the tree-'replacement' program
2024 protest: a promise not kept
Yerevan residents protested the destruction of 3,000 trees; authorities promised to suspend cutting — smola.media, April 4, 2024
'If there are no scientific proposals, the tree-replacement program continues' — Avinyan — 168.am, April 8, 2024
Court: 'replacement' reclassified as 'sanitary cutting'
Waste collection is handed to international operator Sanitek
Yerevan signs a €26M contract to replace Nubarashen
City Hall scraps the Nubarashen-replacement project
Sanitek files an international arbitration claim against Armenia
Mayor Avinyan announces the city's first waste-recycling plant
Northern Avenue: below-market evictions and opaque tenders
Decision No. 1151-N: 345,000 m² of the center marked for expropriation
The Firdusi quarter: 12 years of 'public interest' and shifting developers
Dalma Gardens: land in exchange for a road
Tsitsernakaberd Highway collapses near the Dalma Gardens construction site
City Hall legalized thousands of unauthorized buildings — and profited from it
Tigran Avinyan
OfficialMayor of Yerevan«Draft, within 2 months, a four-year clean-air plan with concrete indicators — tree-planting and restrictions on the oldest, dirtiest cars (a ban on vehicles without a catalytic converter).»
«Build the long-promised 11th metro station ('Ajapnyak') to relieve the city.»
«Buy 250 18-meter electric buses — the 'final phase' of the public-transport fleet upgrade (replacing the HIGER buses and GAZelle-City minibuses).»
«Suspend the cutting and run an independent evaluation of the trees' condition.»
Yerevan mayor absent as protesters rally against mass tree cutting — CivilNet, March 26, 2025
«Turn the remaining ~200 ha of the Dalma gardens into a large public forest-park — a forest zone with sports and children's grounds and a water body.»
«The alarming international air-pollution rankings for Yerevan are not true; the foreign sensors carry 'up to a 40% margin of error'.»
«The 2024 master plan is the first digitized, GIS-based one, adopted through an open process.»
Avinyan orders a 4-year clean-air plan — within 2 months
AQI 239 smog — and the environment chief's dismissal
City Hall: car growth 'demands action'
2024 protest: a promise not kept
City Hall scraps the Nubarashen-replacement project
Mayor Avinyan announces the city's first waste-recycling plant
Council of Elders approves new master plan
Sanitek Armenia
CompanyFormer waste-collection contractorWaste collection is handed to international operator Sanitek
Garbage collapse: Sanitek Armenia fails to keep up
Sanitek is first to launch pre-arbitration against the state
Mayor Marutyan unilaterally terminates the Sanitek contract
Sanitek files an international arbitration claim against Armenia
Nikol Pashinyan
OfficialPrime Minister of Armenia«Restrict private cars in the center from 2027; an inter-agency task force was created.»
Pashinyan: traffic is a 'crisis'
PM's motorcade kills a pregnant pedestrian crossing on green
Sahakyanshin
CompanyDeveloper of the Dalma Gardens residential complexThe Dalma Gardens plot was rezoned from green space to residential for development.
Dalma Gardens: land in exchange for a road
Tsitsernakaberd Highway collapses near the Dalma Gardens construction site
Hayk Marutyan
OfficialFormer Mayor of Yerevan«A new master plan will be ready 'in two years': the mayor's advisor David Chgnavoryan called 1.5 years realistic but asked to 'keep two years in mind'.»
Mayor Marutyan unilaterally terminates the Sanitek contract
Kanachapatum (municipal non-profit)
CompanyCity greenery contractorCity Hall launches the tree-'replacement' program
Tumanyan St: ~50 trees and a new protest
Traffic Police
Government body«Solve the traffic-jam problem 'in the near future'.»
Police promise to 'solve congestion in the near future'
Transparency International Anticorruption Center Armenia
NGOCity Hall withheld the full draft master plan and failed statutory public disclosure (2023–2024).
Transparency International: the master plan is being hidden from the public
Aram Torosyan
PersonClaimant in the tree-cutting case- Tree cuttingclaimantAdministrative CourtIn hearings
A suit challenging the cutting program: a resident seeks to have City Hall's decisions to fell mature trees en masse declared unlawful.
Arthur Meschian
OfficialYerevan chief architect (2018-2020)«'Land occupation is theft from all of us, it is over': the chief architect vowed not to legalize illegal builds and personally assured residents that no high-rise would go up at 6/1 Alikhanyan Brothers St.»
City Center Development / Dianar
CompanyDeveloper of the Firdusi (33rd) quarterThe Firdusi quarter: 12 years of 'public interest' and shifting developers
Yerevan Council of Elders
Government bodyCouncil of Elders approves new master plan
DTI Development / DTI Construction
CompanyOperator of the 'Yerevan Downtown' (Noragyugh) projectGovernment approves 'Yerevan Downtown' on the site of Noragyugh
Kanach Yerevan
NGOUrban-greenery initiativeTumanyan St: ~50 trees and a new protest
Parking City Service
CompanyYerevan paid-parking operatorPaid parking on shaky legal ground
Sarhat Petrosyan
PersonFormer chair of the State Committee of the Real Estate CadastreEx-cadastre chief: 'dilettantism and clannishness bordering on corruption'
Sona Ayvazyan
PersonRepresentative, Transparency International Anticorruption Center ArmeniaTransparency International: the master plan is being hidden from the public
Viktor Tsatryan
PersonCivic activistTumanyan St: ~50 trees and a new protest
WYG
CompanyUK transport-reform consultantThe $200M transport overhaul stalls